UC College of Law to Host Discussion on Immigration Act of 1965 and Its Impact
The community is invited to join UC College of Law students, faculty and staff for
Beginning of the End: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Emergence of the Modern U.S./Mexico Border State
, a lecture by Dean Kevin Johnson, University of California-Davis School of Law.
The lecture will be held at 12:15 p.m., Thursday, April 17, in Room 118 of the College of Law building. All are invited to attend. In the lecture, Johnson will reflect on the Immigration Act of 1965, the amendments to the act that followed and the impact of the act and amendments on Latina/o immigrants.
About the Speaker
Kevin R. Johnson is dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and professor of Chicana/o studies at the University of California-Davis, where he has been since 1989. Johnson is a preeminent and prolific scholar, teacher and advocate in the areas of immigration law, civil rights, Latino/as and the law, and critical race theory.
His scholarly works include such books as "The Huddled 'masses' Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights," "Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws" and "Immigration Law and the U.S.-Mexico Border," which received the Latino Literacy Now's International Latino Book Award - Best Reference Book. Johnson has been regularly quoted in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other international news sources.
Johnsons teaching and advocacy have been recognized by various institutions throughout the country. He has been the recipient of the American Association of Law Schools Clyde Ferguson Award (2004), the Hispanic National Bar Associations Law Professor of the Year Award (2006), the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year Award (2008) and was honored with the Central American Resource Center Romero Vive Award for his outstanding work and commitment to social justice and immigrants (2012).
This event is sponsored by the Immigration and Nationality Law Review.
About the Immigration and Nationality Law Review at the College of Law
The Immigration and Nationality Law Review
focuses on student advocacy in the area of immigration and nationality law. While primarily focused on immigration law, which seeks to define who may enter and reside in a country, INLR incorporates subject matter well beyond immigration. In particular, the INLR addresses issues of nationality which considers the formal relationship between a citizen of a nation and the nation itself. Since immigration and nationality work together to delineate citizenship and residency, they play an important part in the ongoing dialogue regarding national identity. Moreover, immigration and nationality frequently implicate issues of race, gender, class and national security.
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